James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

Her first starring role at the studio, in the title role as Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), revived her career and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress.

* Ministry Of Information, By Air To Battle – The Official Account Of The British Airborne Divisions, Her Majesty ’ s Stationary Office, 1945

Her first novel, Bonheur d ' occasion ( 1945 ), gave a starkly realistic portrait of the lives of people in Saint-Henri, a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal.

She held various titles over the years that indicated her advancing rank as a favored consort until she eventually became Empress Dowager in 1933, with style of Her Imperial Majesty added in 1945.

Her first husband was Anthony Forwood ( 1942 – 1948 ), with whom she had her only child, Gareth Forwood ( 1945 – 2007 ), an actor.

Her tenure as Seigneur was interrupted by the German occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II from 3 July 1940 until 8 May 1945.

Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams ' Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ), starring Gene Tierney, which was the highest-grossing Fox film of the 1940s.

* Her Highness and the Bellboy ( 1945 )

Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American 20th Century Fox Technicolor film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, and Chill Wills.

More recently, Lou Lumenick, film critic for the New York Post, wrote, " John M. Stahl's masterful Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ) sounds like a contradiction in terms – a film noir in eye-popping Technicolor, with its most chilling scene taking place not in a dimly lit back alley but on a lake in Maine.

in Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 )

Also in 1945, Crain starred in Leave Her to Heaven with Gene Tierney.

Her second marriage, to conductor Leopold Stokowski in April 1945, produced two sons, Leopold Stanislaus " Stan " Stokowski, born August 22, 1950 and Christopher Stokowski, born January 31, 1952 ; they divorced in October 1955.

Her film career had spread over almost 20 years before she gained international renown as Pina in Roberto Rossellini's neorealist milestone Roma, città aperta ( Rome, Open City, 1945 ).

* Her Highness and the Bellboy ( 1945 )

Her successor, Lillian Brooks Coffey ( 1945 – 1964 ) was the organizer of the Women's International Convention.

Her last broadcast was on May 6, 1945, just two days before the German surrender.

Her principled pacifist position was vindicated somewhat when, in 1945, the Nazis ' Black Book of 2000 people to be immediately arrested in Britain after a German invasion was shown to include her name.

* Her Royal Highness Princess Stéphanie, Princess Lónyai of Nagy-Lónya ( 1917 – 1945 )

Examples include Brigid O ' Shaughnessy, portrayed by Mary Astor, who murders Sam Spade's partner in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ); Gene Tierney as Ellen Brent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ), and the cabaret singer portrayed by Rita Hayworth in Gilda ( 1946 ), narcissistic wives who manipulate their husbands ; Phyllis Dietrichson ( Barbara Stanwyck ) in Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Ava Gardner in The Killers and Cora ( Lana Turner ) in The Postman Always Rings Twice, both based on novels by James M. Cain, manipulate men into killing their husbands.

Her most successful film was Kitty ( 1945 ), in which she played the title role.

* Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 )

Her specialty is scat singing.

Her recording of " Sentimental Journey " was the first song placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one of the best albums ever made.

" Her bebop recording of " Oh, Lady be Good!

Her first professional recording with Ike Turner was singing background for him on Ike's record, " Box Top ".

Her extraordinary talent was discovered when Miranda was first introduced to composer Josué de Barros, who went on to promote and record her first album with a Brunswick, a German recording company in 1929.

Her success as a live performer led to her recording several albums at Capitol Records: Liza!

" Her musical style and choreography have influenced and inspired a younger generation of recording artists.

Her fame grew throughout the early 1990s, especially in Spanish-speaking countries, and she had begun recording in English as well.

" ( Her performance was repeated on 1991 studio cast recording based on the concert staging, appearing alongside Howard McGillin, Susan Powell, Kim Criswell, and Karen Ziemba.

Her desire and ability to sing came early ; at age seven she was offered her first recording contract, which her father turned down.

Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned Brown a Tony Award, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award.

Her first studio recording session was with Bruce Robb, who produced, engineered, and mixed her demos.

Her youngest son, Solomon, also has started recording.

Her marriage and recording début came in 1929, to and with Kansas Joe McCoy, when a Columbia Records talent scout heard them playing in a Beale Street barbershop in their distinctive ' Memphis style ,' and their song " Bumble Bee " became a hit.

Her recording of " Tenderly " became an unexpected pop hit in late 1947.

Her December 27, 1947, recording of " It's Magic " ( from the Doris Day film Romance on the High Seas ) found chart success in early 1948.

Her recording of " Nature Boy " from April 8, 1948, became a hit around the same time as the release of the famous Nat King Cole recording of the same song.

Her debut Mercury recording session took place in February 1954 and she stayed with the label through 1959.

Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues ( 1996 ), which focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins, with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

In 1981, he recorded some instrumental tracks for his unreleased instrumental album Strings and Things and in 1984, he did some instrumental writing and recording including the soundtrack for the film A Breed Apart, The only work released under his own name were two singles: " Railroad " in 1970 and " Hold Her in Your Hand " in 1984.

Her relationship with the Wilburn Brothers and her appearances on the Grand Ole Opry, beginning in 1960, helped Lynn become the number one female recording artist in country music.

Her final professional appearance was a cameo on the 1988 studio recording of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, starring Frederica von Stade and Jerry Hadley, in which she affectingly spoke the few lines of The Old Lady on the Levee in the final scene.

Her 1961 recording of Sailor became her first No. 1 hit in the U. K., while such follow-up recordings as Romeo and My Friend the Sea landed her in the British Top Ten later that year.